Yesterday
Yesterday, my friend had his transplanted kidney removed.His sister donated to him last spring and things have not been going well. The kidney did not “wake up” after it was transplanted. He was dialyzed a couple of days in the hospital and after a week or so things became better, but not great, and he was released from the hospital to get on with life. In the past two months, he has had to increase his time in the dialysis chair. In the past several weeks, he was back to the pre-transplant schedule of dialysis and due to continued infection; it was time to remove the transplanted kidney.
I’ll stop by the hospital and see him today.
Last I checked (and that was a couple of years ago), the average life of a transplanted kidney is about ten years for a living donor transplant. Transplanted peeps live with my friend’s scenario hanging around in the back of our heads; waking up one morning back at square one. Some days, the thought is less intense, but today will be one of those intense days.
I’m not sure what I’ll say to my friend when I see him. The juxtaposition will be obvious and he probably does not need too many words.
posted by Jeff Waldo @ 6:48 AM
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